W. Kluwer buys Charles D. Spencer, public records co. & book titles.Wolters Kluwer North America (Chicago, IL) has made three separate acquisitions over the last two weeks, including the purchase of Charles D. Spencer & Associates (Chicago, IL), Intercounty Clearance Corp. (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ) and a series of business and financial management book titles from Prentice Hall Direct (New York). No terms were given for any of the deals. Charles D. Spencer & Associates, represented in the deal by Whitestone Communications (New York), is a provider of print and online pension benefits and compensation information. The acquired titles target pension and employee benefits professionals and include the magazine Employee Benefit Plan Review and looseleaf subscription titles such as Spencer's Research Report on Employee Benefits, Spencer's Compliance Guide for Health and Benefit Plans and the IBIS Briefing Service. Electronic titles are updated daily. Spencer had 2001 fiscal year revenues of more than $3 million. The assets will become a part of Wolters Kluwer's Aspen Publishers (New York) unit, a provider of legal and business information. The online resources of Spencernet.com will be merged into Aspen's Loislaw.com Web site. Walters Kluwer has also acquired Intercounty Clearance Corp. (ICC ICC See: International Chamber of Commerce ), a public records service provider that primarily serves the Northeast U.S. The company provides UCC An abbreviation for the Uniform Commercial Code. and corporate document services to law firms, lenders and financial institutions. It also provides due diligence Research; analysis; your homework. This term has caught on in all industries, because it sounds so "wired." Who would want to do analysis or research when they can do due diligence. See wired. searching for real estate and business closings After advocating such measures for fifteen years, proponents of mandatory plant closing notification secured federal legislation in August 1988 with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, 100 P.L. 379. , mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and compliance. The company bad 2001 fiscal year revenues of $15 million. It will become a part of Kluwer's CCH CCH Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades (Spanish) CCH Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist CCH Cook County Hospital CCH Certified in Classical Homeopathy CCH Country Club Hills (Fairfax City, VA, USA) Legal Information Services (New York) division. Finally, Wolters Kluwer has acquired a series of business and financial management titles from Prentice Hall Direct. Targeting U.S. accounting and legal professionals, the acquired assets include such titles as GAAP GAAP See: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles GAAP See generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Handbook, Accounting Deskbook, IT Policies & Procedures, Lawyer's Desk- book, Complete Guide to HR Law and Labor & Faployment Law. They will become a part of Aspen Publishers. |
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